It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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